Imagine if Nabisco took the stance that it didn’t have anything to prove about the safety and quality of its food, and that food safety testing is just a virtue signal that wastes a bunch of product. They could be sincere, and somehow keep product quality and safety acceptably high, but they are taking away your way of knowing that.
Food safety testing is an interesting topic. In Germany where I live, the EU decides on limits for the amount of pesticides that can be in the food that can be sold. The German government than sets higher limits then the EU rules. The supermarket chains then set even higher limits for the food that they sell. That’s true even for the discouter chains.
This process results in pesticide limits don’t have a good medical basis.
On the other hand there’s microplastic in our food. There are no limits for the microplastic in the food, nobody measures and does anything about it. From a health perspective having stronger limits on microplastics and weaker on pesticides would make our food safer.
German culture values companies virtue signal that they adhere to standards in a way that makes our food likely safer then US food, but it’s still imperfect.
A discourse that would focus more on the empiric issues involved in food safety would be better then one that focuses around avoiding pesticides as a virtue signal.
You’re saying they should clarify what really matters and find a good measurement for that. Maybe this wasn’t as clear as I thought, but that’s what I’m saying, too!
Food safety testing is an interesting topic. In Germany where I live, the EU decides on limits for the amount of pesticides that can be in the food that can be sold. The German government than sets higher limits then the EU rules. The supermarket chains then set even higher limits for the food that they sell. That’s true even for the discouter chains.
This process results in pesticide limits don’t have a good medical basis.
On the other hand there’s microplastic in our food. There are no limits for the microplastic in the food, nobody measures and does anything about it. From a health perspective having stronger limits on microplastics and weaker on pesticides would make our food safer.
German culture values companies virtue signal that they adhere to standards in a way that makes our food likely safer then US food, but it’s still imperfect.
A discourse that would focus more on the empiric issues involved in food safety would be better then one that focuses around avoiding pesticides as a virtue signal.
You’re saying they should clarify what really matters and find a good measurement for that. Maybe this wasn’t as clear as I thought, but that’s what I’m saying, too!